05-07-2007, 05:58 PM
Quote:I'm not angry about the nerf itself, I'm angry at how it happened. If it was overpowered, why was it allowed in the expansion in the first place? If the nerf was required, why are they now taking some of it back?
Blizzard tends, throughout its games, to make the initial nerf heavy. I'd guess that's just psychology. There will almost always need to be multiple steps in any balancing process. 3 steps down feels worse than 1 step down and 2 steps up, even if the ability ends up at the same power level.
As for why it was allowed in the expansion in the first place, I've given this a lot of thought and even considered various tinfoil-hat theories. But I settled on simple resource triage: Blizzard spent their limited time producing what they felt were attractive abilities and bugfixing them. They didn't balance test because TBC was already behind schedule and they simply didn't have time. This is the simplest and most reasonable explanation in my mind for why we're still seeing huge changes through itemization and class abilities.